Feeding suppression induced by intra-ventricle III infusion of 1,5-anhydroglucitol

1,5-Anhydroglucitol (1-DG) has been known as an antimetabolic glucose analogue. Using gas chromatography, 1-DG was found to be physiologically present in rat serum. In order to investigate its direct and long-term effects on feeding, 1-DG was infused during the light period into the rat third ventricle in doses of 3.0, 6.0 and 12.0 mumol/rat. Its effects were then compared to those of similarly applied 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG). Following initial hyperphagia, both of these glucose-analogues produced suppressive effects on feeding during the subsequent day throughout the light and dark periods. On the third day after 2-DG injection reduction of feeding did not recover completely to the pretreatment baseline levels, but it did recover after 1-DG. Both 1-DG and 2-DG caused linear dose-related hypophagia, with the slope for 1-DG being about half of that for 2-DG. It is suggested that the delayed hypophagia which followed the initial hyperphagia produced by deoxyglucose was a result of sustained inactivation of the Na-pump due to intracellular ATP deficiency caused by accumulation of deoxy-glucose-6-phosphate.